Word: woode
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...well as learn from him. But after tripping over and disarranging at least five of his works in process, and after being disturbed at the interview with Mirko by a stray artsy busybody, it's easy to see why Mirko doesn't hold open house. His jungle of massive wood beams from razed houses (works-to-be), metal shears, styrofoam, paints, glues, saws and over 100 sculptures and sculptures-to-be is neither suitable nor navigable for masses of visitors...
EVEN Mirko's telling of how he makes a sculpture could fit any of at least 1000 great and minor artisst today. There is material--styrofoam, bronze, wood, automobile parts, plexiglass, wood. Material tells you what is permissible--bronze cannot be translucent, while plexiglass makes Mirko play with its strange transparency. Uncolored plexiglass does not exist visually, until you cut it. So it is the elimination of material that makes the form, while the bulk makes a void...
...that the three defendants were unquestionably responsible for "the dastardly act"; as a matter of law, he said, no reasonable person could dispute their liability. The jury of eight Negroes and four whites then called for $21,500 actual damages, plus $1,000,000 punitive damages. Said Attorney Martha Wood: "We hope that an award of this size will deter such acts in the future...
Snug Burrows. For nature study, the museum has taken birds and butterflies out of glass boxes and installed them in a simulated forest that the children can observe from overhead platforms. There is also a tunnel tour below the forest floor, where they can see wood-chucks, weasels and chipmunks all snug in their burrows...
...Michael Wood is now doing well, and will start kindergarten in January. When he is taken to Dr. Hendrick for a checkup, he trots in and prattles as fluently as the average tot of his age. If he still had all his brain, Michael would be paralyzed on his left side, walking lamely if at all, not talking, and suffering daily or more frequent seizures despite drug treatment...